Mario Pacheco

Mario Pacheco ( born November 6, 1950 in Madrid, † November 26, 2010 ) was a Spanish photographer and music producer who, promoted jazz and African music with the label Nuevos Medios the Nuevo Flamenco and thus the fusion of Flamenco with Blues.

Life and work

Pacheos father and grandfather worked in the cinema business; his professional career began as a photographer. In the late 1960s he traveled to the UK, photographed in 1970 Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight Festival. He later moved to Formentera, where he met with a portable Nagra tape recorder produced first recordings by artists such as Pau Ribas Jo, La Dona i el Gripau that have appeared on the Catalan label Edigsa. Pacheco then founded with his business partner David Miró, grandson of Joan Miró, 1982, the label Nuevos Medios whose logo Joan Miró designed. Then appeared especially music of the Spanish Nuevo flamenco scene that stands with the eruption ( Movida ) in the Spanish cultural scene after the end of Franco's dictatorship in conjunction. The label also drove the music label ECM, Hannibal, Cherry Red, Rough Trade and Factory Records. In 1985 he organized the first tour in Spain the band The Smiths.

Pacheco took on his label, which was often referred to as the Motown of flamenco first artists like Ray Heredia, Aurora, La Barbería del Sur and Pata Negra on later musicians of modern Flamenco, as Moraíto Chico and Diego Carrasco, further fusion projects of Ketama Toumani Diabate and Danny Thompson with or by guitarist Pepe Habichuela with the Bollywood strings. The Label Sampler Los Jóvenes Flamenco made ​​known the music of Ray Heredia, Jorge Pardo, Amargós y Benavent, La Barbería del Sur or Ramon El Portuguese general public. He also gave the contact between Dave Holland and Pepe Habichuela, which led to their joint album Hands ( 2010).

In addition, published Pacheco music of rock bands Joy Division and New Order, The Smiths, as well as jazz by Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, Steve Reich, Bill Evans and Art Pepper, Latin Music of Bola de Nieve, Beny More, Golpes Bajos, Pata Negra or Martyrdom.

Pacheco, who was most recently president of the Unión Fonográfica Independiente (UFI ), died in November 2010 from cancer.